Friday, January 27, 2006

I'll show you mine if you show me yours

I've had a rough week or two. We've had to utilize the flexibility available through homeschooling. Everyone (let me repeat: EVERYONE) has been sick with the flu. I have spent all week cleaning up various forms of things that fly out of children when they're ill.

So, I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to post a picture of one big massive mess in my home. There's more than one, but I'm taking baby steps. What I'm hoping will happen is that some of you will post your own mess and I can link to you. I want to see the kind of mess that would send you to the ER if someone showed up unannounced.

Surely I'm not the only one that goes into a mad cleaning frenzy when someone is coming by. Here it is ... my dresser ... the way it looks every single second that I'm NOT expecting company. No one outside of my own family has ever seen this:

crap i write about

years of drivel

"My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I,of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories, in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally."